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Stumbling Stones Sichelstraße 3

STOLPERSTEIN / STUMBLING STONE
for:
Adolf Altmann
Alexander Altmann
Erwin Altmann
Arthur Ermann
Bernhard Leonhard Herrmann
Ernst Abrahamsohn
Ernst Lazarus
Fritz Lazarus
Hans Lazarus
Ernst Leyy
Gerhard Wolf-Heidegger
Hans Stern
Heinrich Schloss
Heinz Kahn
Hermann Bassfreund
Jürgen Bassfreund
Isaak Julius Samuel
Johann Otto
Julius Wolf
Marcel Leib
Paul Sänger
Richard Milton

The German artist Gunter Demnig started placing the first Stolpersteine in 1997 in the Berlin's Kreuzberg district.
Meanwhile there are Stolpersteine in many countries.
It reminds the Holocaust in World War II.
A Stolperstein is a concrete stone of 10 x 10cm, with a brass plate on top, in which the name, date of birth and decease and also place of decease is punched into.
The Stolperstein gets a place in the pavement in front of the former house of the victim.
By doing this, Gunter Demnig gives a private memorial to each victim.
His motto is: 'A HUMAN BEING IS FORGOTTEN ONLY WHEN HIS OR HER NAME IS FORGOTTEN'.

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  • Text: TracesOfWar
  • Photos: Marie-Christine Vinck